Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

[Eric Dumazet]

Andrew Morton a écrit :
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:57:50 -0800
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 08:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:39:33 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm1/
> > > >
> > > >   LD      init/built-in.o
> > > >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> > > > ld: section .vsyscall_1 [0000000000645400 -> 000000000064542e] overlaps
> > > > section .jiffies [0000000000645400 -> 0000000000645407]
> > > > ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: section .vsyscall_1 lma 0x645400 overlaps previous
> > > > sections
> > > > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> > > bah.  Please send .config.
> > #
> > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1
>
> The wheel spins around, slows then settles on.... 
> time-smp-friendly-alignment-of-struct-clocksource.patch!
>
> Presumably because the ____cacheline_aligned made vsyscall_gtod_data_t get
> too big.  Or something.

Maybe yes... 1024 bytes to code vsyscall0 is tricky.

But then I remember I posted a patch some time ago to remove __jiffie from 
vsyscall page... no answer yet from Andi.

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